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So, who among well-known classical composers become teachers in real life? Who are they famous students?
How did they teach?

Schubert manages that most supreme of feats, to be melancholy without being maudlin, his pain is not a mockery of pain but truly heartfelt, and he manages to pass that though with all of its complexities in his music.

Anton Bruckner was a well-known teacher in his day, although none of his students turned out to be significant composers (Mahler took a few of Bruckner's classes, and allied himself with Bruckner's "faction", but was not truly his student).

Olivier Messiaen taught some of the post-WWII avant-garde's most important composers: Boulez, Xenakis, Stockhausen, and so forth. Messiaen himself was taught by Paul Dukas of Sorcerer's Apprentice fame.

Charles Villiers Stanford taught many British composers around the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Two big names among his many students where Vaughan Williams and Holst. Another one was Frank Bridge, who in turn went on to teach Britten. Even Australian composer Arthur Benjamin went to the UK, then centre of the British Empire, to learn under the Irishman Stanford. Apparently Stanford was quite a character. His humour could be dry and pointed (& politically incorrect!).

Another reputable composer who taught in the UK was Hubert Parry, but I'm not sure who studied under him (anyone famous?).

Some others I can think of:

- Conductor Georg Solti studied under Bartok and Dohnanyi (and possibly Kodaly? - the great Hungarian trimvirate!)
- Janacek taught pianist Rudolf Firkusny
- R. Strauss taught Spaniard Carlos Surinach
- Vaughan Williams was taught by Bruch and also got lessons from Ravel
- Beethoven was taught not only by Haydn but by Albrechtsberger and Neefe (This Naxos label cd would be interesting to hear relating to how they may have influenced him...or not?)
- Peter Sculthorpe was taught by Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra (another Aussie, Richard Mills, also went to learn under Rubbra). Sculthorpe in turn taught Barry Conyngham, who also studied under Takemitsu
- Schoenberg studied briefly under Zemlinsky - apparently the only formal lessons Arnie had, othewise he was self taught
- Dohnanyi taught many Hungarian musos, incl. Solti as mentioned, also Annie Fischer, Geza Anda, Andor Foldes (Dohnanyi was one of the great pianists of his time, apart from being a composer)
- Faure taught many, most notably Ravel, but also Enescu and Nadia Boulanger
- Faure was taught by Saint-Saens
- Enescu himself taught Yehudi Menuhin
- Cesar Franck taught D'Indy, Vierne, Chausson and Duparc, among others
- Busoni taught Varese and Kurt Weill
- Milhaud taught many, incl. William Bolcom, Xenakis and Burt Bacharach and Dave Brubeck

Schoenberg also taught Hanns Eisler, composer of Communist convictions, who wrote some fine works (his songs are examples of that interwar period same as Kurt Weill's are, and I think Bertolt Brecht acted as lyricist for both) and also the national anthem of former East Germany. I also think Schoenberg (&/or Berg?) taught Greek serialist Skalkottas. & its widely known on this forum that Schoenberg also gave lessons for free to John Cage once he was in the USA.